Connecticut western news., 1887-06-29
SOME TIMELY GLEANINGS.

SOME TIMELY GLEANINGS.
 -Ben Perley Poorc has left at the Indian Hill Farm, near Newburyport, Mass, a house. full of historical relics belonging to the colo nial and Revolutionary epochs.
 One of the leading educators of the coun. try and man whose name has been highly honorcd and beloved passed away when Dr.. Mark Hopkins, ex-President of Williams Col lege, died at Williamstown. Mark Hopkins was bon i'll Stockbridge, Mass, Feb. 4, 1902, and was the grandson of Mark Hopkins, an officer in the Revolution and subsequently, a lawyer. His mother died July IA, 1888, at the age of 95. Mark was the eldest of three sons, He was fitted for college by the Rev. Jared Curtis, his uncle, and partly at the academy at Lennox and at Clifton, N. Y. He attended to his daily duties as usual during the past win ter, and for many years has not missed & rcci- tation. With his books for his companions, and collegiate duties just sufficient to furnish occupation, the venerable scholar has pursued his course happily and prosperously. For sixty-two years he has been connected with Williams College, three years as 8 student, two years as tutor, six years as Professor, 36 years as President and then again 15 years as Professor, but without the responsibility for the government of the college. This record makes 56 of tho years in continuous service.
 Tho old house in Fettcr lane, London, where Dryden lived has been utterly demol- ished. Elliott Stock, the publisher, rescued from the wreck the balusters of the staircase.
 Tho grand piano for New York million aire decorated with paintings by Alma Tnde- ma, Poynter and Goldman is shown in London. set of furniture decorated by Alma Tadema will be placed in the music room for which the piano is destined.
 |. A pretty incident of the Emperor's late visit to Kcil: When stcaming past the iron clads which were anchored in parade order, on fr,,,, H0lf n al hi o{f ivy came abreast of the Swedish war vessel Edda, of which tho crew were also manning tho yards and cheering Justify. At the same time Prince Oscar of Sweden, as the commander of the vessel, which had brought him to Kicl, ad- vanced and saluted the Emperor on which his Majesty took the Star of tho Black Eagle from his breast, and with few gracious words pinned it on to the uniform of his royal Swcd- ish guest.
 Boston schools are said to suffer from too much supervision. The teachers are over- worked with examinations and statistics, and the grind of tho method machine tells upon the physique of the children. The tendency of over-supervision is to magnify system of education at the expense of education itself
 A successful test in partially lighting tho Hoosac Tunnel was made lately with 16S in- candescent lights of 16 and 25 candle power. The first light is 1,0O0 feet from the entrance, and the tunnel is now lighted a mile from the entrance and 5000 feet from the dynamo. The object in lighting the tunnel Is not merely for the benefit of the passengers, but it will help the workmen constantly employed there. It is also proposed to burn coke in locomotives as they pass through the tunnel, and thus avoid much smoke and gas.
 The Catholic RcUie,o predicts that thou sand new Catholic schools will dot the Ameri- can landscape before tho close of 1887, and that 20O, 900 children will m ake their abode in them.
 Tho Winnipeg Free Press has an infamma- tory article on the disallowance question saying: ''We must be treated as frccmen. The time has come not to whisper, but to thunder ter rible warning at the deaf cars at Ottawa. Our minds are made up. If the moment should come when the Ottawa Government lays a rough hand upon the railway which we pro- pose to build with our own money to the boundary, it will be a moment to rue. Mani toba has long been muttering It now be- hooyes her to assal tho ears of Ottawa with unmistakablo words. If we arc interfercd with now, there will be trouble such as Canada never saw in the lurid moments of past con- vulslons. There will be rebellion such as the sleepy gods at Ottawa never dreamed of."
 Of the $3OO,0OO required to finish the quadrangle of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts about fve-sixths has been subscribed. The sum of S218000 was subscribed by 5S anonymous benefactors.
 Since Coquelin the elder quarreled with the Directory of the Theatre Franeais there has been more or less talk of his coming to America, but this spring it was announced that the plan had been abandoned. The firm of Abbey, Schoeffel X Grau, however, which seems destined to monopolize all the great at fractions of the world, has contracted with the French comedian to play in London this fall and then come to New York in December with 8 company of French Artists and presumably aferward make & tour of America. Another engagement of equal importance by the same firm is that of Jane Harding, the celebrated successor of Bernhardt in the estimation ot the French theatrical world. She will follow Coquelin in America.
 New Workers interested in the controversy between Dr. McGlynn and his archbishop, be- lievers in the land theories of Henry George and those whose judgment is in state of sus pension regarding both, have matter for reflec Dr. Thomas Nulty, Bishop of Meath, which wa, written in 1881, and appears at length in the New York Standard of June IS.
 Herman once performed before the Sul tan Abdul Aziz, and threw sSValuable watch oi his Majesty's into the Bosphorus. There wal 8 great outcry, which the conjurer checked b, coniuring up the watch again into the Sultan' pocket. For this he received present of 50( Turkish pounds. It is now said, however, tha he really did throw the Sutan's watch into th water, and that the ono he conjured back wal areplica duplicate, obtained beforehand iron the maker of the original timepiece.
 The representative Southern business mar is 8 much more frequent visitor North this year than he has been at any time since "befo the wah." It isn't on sightseeing nowaday that the Southern visitor Is bent; the absorb ing prosperity of the new South has given new purpose, and in every department o1 Northern trade the man of Dixie is to be me driving bargains, making investments, or ar ranging for the development of some new go l ahead scheme that shall further enrich and up build his ''section."